Sunday, January 18, 2009

That was probably the sentence that I said more often last weekend while I was in Paris, for the first time. Soooooooo many great bakeries, patisseries, cheeseries, chocolateries, and other food related shops, that really makes it difficult to walk straight in a street without "zigzagging" all the time!

Paris was, as I imagined, beautiful. So many thing to do, to visit, to see, to eat, to live... Everything is huge there: the monuments, the avenues, the macarons...

A French friend of mine told me that I HAD to go to Ladurée, because they have the BEST macarons in the Universe. And I think she might be right!... Not only the macarons, but everything there was so perfect and delicious looking! I wanted to buy each and every variety of entremets, pastries, bonbons... But I needed to focus, I was there for the macarons, and macarons I got! And I got them BIG!

Macaron heaven in pistachio and raspberry flavours!

"Honey, they blew up the Macarons!"

Yep, I'm pretty much in love...

Ok, with my full belly, I can do some normal turism sightseeing now. Wanna come with me?

The triumphal Arch of Triumph

The view from the middle of the Eiffel Tower. Everything covered in snow...

65 comments:

AWESOME, Rita! Now I want to go to Paris--have never been to Europe! Really, I want to try those macarons! Please pass me a, hmmm, chocolate, caramel, pistacio, any will do!Great trip!Hey, check me out at the Levain Bakery blog, www.itsallaboutthecookie.blogspot.com

I came across your blog on tastespotting. I was just in Paris last week! I had the passionfruit maccaron at Pierre Hermes and it was incredible! I think it's a very good thing I did not buy more than 2, lol. BTW, it was chilly, wasn't it!?

Ahah! That's exactly what my husband used to say when I took him in town a couple of years back...and I thought I was bad!!Your post made me homesick but in a good way...the way that makes your heart swell up :)

What a wonderful trip! I am so jealous. I miss Europe and hope to go back soon. It looks like you ate your way through Paris but with all that walking I am sure it did not matter. Thanks for sharing such wonderful pictures. Great Post!!!

Yippie! You survived the Parisians! ;-)I LOVE the pictures on this post Rita. Looks like you had a heck of a good time. Those macarons are fantastic!! Love the PH passion-fruit. mmmmmm... One day we'll meet in Paris and part-ey. :-)

I live right next to Paris in Saint Fargeau! What a small world! I always go get macarons at La Durée and then a little mini bottle of Champagne across the street at the Monoprix... and then I sneak that into the movie theater with me which is a few meters from that!

The photo you have of the woman's back, she's carrying bread, I have the exact same picture from my Paris visit a few years ago. I must dig it up and send it to you somehow. It's creepy how similar it is!